It's starting to look like a huge summer for Farm Bureau Live amphitheater in Virginia Beach. In addition to previously unveiled shows by Elton John, Jimmy Buffett and Dave Matthews, promoters announced Monday that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street...

Fifty by 50 is the mantra that guides Brita Hampton's fitness regimen. Translated, her goal is to run 50 half marathons, one in each state, before she turns 50. As she's now clipping out at least four a year with the necessary geographic range, the...

LaShawn Merritt calls it "'my Virginia Shuffle.''
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly would have loved it.
It was the quick sidestep that freed him from a major traffic jam and gave him the daylight to barrel down the homestretch and give Team USA a...

The NBA held an exhibition at Ellis Park Arena in Johannesburg, South Africa, a game filled with star power that perhaps was a step toward the league holding a regular season game in an African nation. Chris Paul, Pau Gasol, Luol Deng and others played,...

A 39-year-old American woman was killed in a hotel room in Cape Town this week and a murder suspect of Guatemalan origin has been arrested, South African police said Friday. South African police spokeswoman Noloyiso Rwexana said the body of the woman...

The NBA is in Africa for an exhibition, and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expects more important games to come.
"Stay tuned," Silver said Thursday as 20 NBA stars, including Pau Gasol, Chris Paul and Luol Deng, prepare to play at a small arena...

Victims of apartheid in South Africa cannot sue IBM Corp. and Ford Motor Co. in New York because they cannot show that the companies' alleged offending behavior occurred in the United States, a federal appeals court said Monday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court...

The cry of the orphaned baby rhino, left alone when its mother has been slaughtered by poachers, is a heart-tugging sound somewhere between a dolphin's song and a kitten's mew.
The lucky ones, rescued and taken to South Africa's Rhino Orphanage, call out...

Mick Fanning sat up on a high stool, straight backed and good humored, recounting the story he will be telling for the rest of his days, about how he fought off a shark with his bare hands during a surfing competition in South Africa. It sounds like the...

Mick Fanning sat up on a high stool, straight backed and good humored, recounting the story he will be telling for the rest of his days, about how he fought off a shark with his bare hands during a surfing competition in South Africa.
It sounds like...

Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu returned home on Tuesday after a weeklong hospital stay to treat a "stubborn infection" and is under doctors' orders to rest, his South African foundation said. Tutu returned home wearing a dressing gown...

Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu returned home on Tuesday after a weeklong hospital stay and is under doctors' orders to rest, his South African foundation said.
Tutu returned home wearing a dressing gown embroidered with the words "Feet Up...

In a simpler time, all a child or an adult needed to enjoy the outdoors was a ball and a stick. Or maybe an old tire tied to a high branch to fashion a swing. And the only instruction given to children was to be home before dark. Now there are iPads and...

A shark attacking a top surfer during a televised competition in South Africa captured the world's attention but the incident is not highly unusual. South Africa has an average of six shark attacks including one death each year.
The shark bumped...

A commuter train crashed into another passenger train during rush hour Friday in South Africa's largest city injuring more than 300 people, an emergency services spokeswoman said. Nana Radebe, spokeswoman for Johannesburg Emergency Services, said 326...

They are the most vulnerable victims of South Africa's rhino poaching scourge, the baby rhinos that survive the shooting deaths of their mothers. Many probably die of dehydration or other perils in the wild, but some lucky ones end up at The Rhino...

A commuter train crashed into another passenger train during rush hour Friday in South Africa's largest city injuring more than 300 people, an emergency services spokeswoman said.
Nana Radebe, spokeswoman for Johannesburg Emergency Services, said 326...

A group of 20 travelers from Britain, South Africa and India were detained in northern China, a relative said Wednesday. A South African aid group said some of them are accused of watching videos deemed to be terrorist propaganda. The Foreign Ministry...